diff --git a/calibre-plugin/__init__.py b/calibre-plugin/__init__.py
index 13fb925e..18a84c40 100644
--- a/calibre-plugin/__init__.py
+++ b/calibre-plugin/__init__.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class FanFictionDownLoaderBase(InterfaceActionBase):
     description         = 'UI plugin to download FanFiction stories from various sites.'
     supported_platforms = ['windows', 'osx', 'linux']
     author              = 'Jim Miller'
-    version             = (1, 5, 40)
+    version             = (1, 5, 41)
     minimum_calibre_version = (0, 8, 30)
 
     #: This field defines the GUI plugin class that contains all the code
diff --git a/calibre-plugin/ffdl_plugin.py b/calibre-plugin/ffdl_plugin.py
index c92761f3..8a45e8b0 100644
--- a/calibre-plugin/ffdl_plugin.py
+++ b/calibre-plugin/ffdl_plugin.py
@@ -779,11 +779,10 @@ make_firstimage_cover:true
             bad_list = filter(lambda x : x['calibre_id'] and not x['good'], book_list)
             total_bad = len(bad_list)
 
-            self.gui.status_bar.show_message(_('Adding/Updating %s BAD books.'%total_bad))
-
             if total_bad > 0:
                 custom_columns = self.gui.library_view.model().custom_columns
                 if prefs['errorcol'] != '' and prefs['errorcol'] in custom_columns:
+                    self.gui.status_bar.show_message(_('Adding/Updating %s BAD books.'%total_bad))
                     label = custom_columns[prefs['errorcol']]['label']
                     print("errorcol label:%s"%label)
                     ## if error column and all bad.
diff --git a/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_thehexfilesnet.py b/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_thehexfilesnet.py
index ad74ce34..b6fc120e 100644
--- a/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_thehexfilesnet.py
+++ b/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_thehexfilesnet.py
@@ -190,12 +190,19 @@ class TheHexFilesNetAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
         logging.debug('Getting chapter text from: %s' % url)
 
         soup = bs.BeautifulStoneSoup(self._fetchUrl(url),
-                                     selfClosingTags=('br','hr')) # otherwise soup eats the br/hr tags.
-        
-        for a in soup.findAll('table'):
-            a.extract()
+                                     selfClosingTags=('br','hr','img')) # otherwise soup eats the br/hr tags.
 
         if None == soup:
             raise exceptions.FailedToDownload("Error downloading Chapter: %s!  Missing required element!" % url)
     
+        # Ugh.  chapter html doesn't haven't anything useful around it to demarcate.
+        for a in soup.findAll('table'):
+            a.extract()        
+
+        for a in soup.findAll('head'):
+            a.extract()
+
+        html = soup.find('html')
+        html.name='div'
+            
         return self.utf8FromSoup(url,soup)
diff --git a/fanficdownloader/adapters/base_adapter.py b/fanficdownloader/adapters/base_adapter.py
index 91258c08..573e2ce8 100644
--- a/fanficdownloader/adapters/base_adapter.py
+++ b/fanficdownloader/adapters/base_adapter.py
@@ -160,9 +160,9 @@ class BaseSiteAdapter(Configurable):
 
     def _fetchUrlRaw(self, url, parameters=None):
         if parameters != None:
-            return self.opener.open(url,urllib.urlencode(parameters)).read()
+            return self.opener.open(url.replace(' ','%20'),urllib.urlencode(parameters)).read()
         else:
-            return self.opener.open(url).read()
+            return self.opener.open(url.replace(' ','%20')).read()
     
     # parameters is a dict()
     def _fetchUrl(self, url, parameters=None):